1938, in a French african colony. Lucien Cordier is the cop of this village, populated with blacks and a few whites (usually racialist and lustful). He is a washout, everyone (including his wife Huguette) humiliates him. He never arrests anyone and looks at elsewhere when a dirty trick occurs. But one day, he turns into a machiavellian exterminating angel.... see Coup de torchon on IMDb

Directed by Bertrand Tavernier. With Philippe Noiret, Isabelle Huppert, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Stéphane Audran. 1938, in a French african colony. Lucien Cordier is the cop of this village, populated with blacks and a few whites (usually racialist and lustful). He is a washout, everyone ...

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Coup de Torchon is a 1981 French film adaptation of Jim Thompson's 1964 novel Pop. 1280, directed by Bertrand Tavernier. The film changes the novel's setting from a West Texas oil boom town to a small town in French West Africa.

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Coup de torchon (1981) - The Criterion Collection

An inspired rendering of Jim Thompson’s pulp novel Pop. 1280, Bertrand Tavernier’s Coup de torchon (Clean Slate) deftly transplants the story of an inept police chief turned heartless killer and his scrappy mistress from the American South to French West Africa.

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Coup de Torchon (The Criterion Collection) (1981)

So, when one reads that the story of french director Bertrand Tavernier's COUP DE TORCHON is happening in the French West Africa of 1938, wild images begin to fly through the movie lover's anxious mind : elephants, lions, snakes, Tarzan, ...

Coup de torchon was nominated for 1 Academy Award in the category of: Best Foreign Language Film [1983]. The film was also nominated for 10 Césars for: Best Actor (Philippe Noiret) [1982]; Best Actress (Isabelle Huppert) [1982]; Best Director (Bertrand Tavernier) [1982]; Best Editing (Armand ...

Editorial Reviews All Movie Guide French filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier based this well-received 1981 release on Jim Thompson's Pop. 1280. Tavernier moved the action from 1910s America to 1930s Africa, but the themes and spirit of the original remain intact.

No consensus yet. ... Movie Info Based on pulp master Jim Thompson's Pop. 1280, Bertrand Tavernier's Coup de Torchon is a sardonic thriller that remains true to its source's spirit, even as it transposes the action from the American South to colonial West Africa.

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